Thomas Malone

September 2, 1875 (age 51)

Ontario

He served as an alderman on the Edmonton Town Council from 1921 until 1923. He committed suicide December 10, 1926. He owned a store in Cochrane before moving to Edmonton in 1905. There, he bought a mercantile business on Whyte Avenue and later purchased the entire block. There he built Malone Limited, which became one of the city"s leading department stores, and which Malone owned and operated until 1926. He also served as president of the South Side Community League and of the Federation of Community Leagues, and was involved with the Liberal Party. Malone first ran for office in the February 1912 municipal election, when, due to the recent amalgamation of Edmonton and Strathcona, an entire new Edmonton City Council was being elected (usually only half of the council was elected each year, to staggered two year terms). Malone finished fifteenth out of eighteen candidates in the aldermanic race and was defeated. He did not seek election at the conclusion of his term, the 1921 election, preferring to run again for city council. He finished third of nineteen candidates and was elected to a two year term. He completed it, but did not seek re-election at its conclusion. In February, 1926, Malone was taken illinois He sold his store and went to Rochester, Minnesota for medical treatment. Later that year he suffered a mental breakdown. He died in Vancouver"s Saint Paul"s Hospital on December 10 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a.22 calibre revolver.

Thomas Malone

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Malone was born in Ontario and came west to Alberta in 1901.

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He served as an alderman on the Edmonton Town Council from 1921 until 1923. He committed suicide December 10, 1926. He owned a store in Cochrane before moving to Edmonton in 1905.

There, he bought a mercantile business on Whyte Avenue and later purchased the entire block.

There he built Malone Limited, which became one of the city"s leading department stores, and which Malone owned and operated until 1926. He also served as president of the South Side Community League and of the Federation of Community Leagues, and was involved with the Liberal Party.

Malone first ran for office in the February 1912 municipal election, when, due to the recent amalgamation of Edmonton and Strathcona, an entire new Edmonton City Council was being elected (usually only half of the council was elected each year, to staggered two year terms). Malone finished fifteenth out of eighteen candidates in the aldermanic race and was defeated.

He did not seek election at the conclusion of his term, the 1921 election, preferring to run again for city council.

He finished third of nineteen candidates and was elected to a two year term. He completed it, but did not seek re-election at its conclusion. In February, 1926, Malone was taken illinois

He sold his store and went to Rochester, Minnesota for medical treatment.

Later that year he suffered a mental breakdown. He died in Vancouver"s Saint Paul"s Hospital on December 10 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a.22 calibre revolver.

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Thereafter, he stayed out of politics until the 1919 election, when he was acclaimed to the city"s separate (Roman Catholic) school board. Between his last run and this one, party politics had come to Edmonton municipal politics, and Malone aligned himself with the Citizens Committee, which had nearly swept the last election.

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